TO P. B. AXELROD

Published:First Published in 1925 inLenin Miscellany III.

      Sent from Munich to Zurich.

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      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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November 26, 1900

Ihave just received a letter from our mutual friend,
who tells us that everything has been arranged. At last the
business will go forward “steadily”! He begs you to send
(me), as quickly as possible, the Nusperli
passport[1](or
Husperli? It is not clear, but you must know what is
meant).[2]

Tomorrow,November 27, he begins the setting, and
consequently we may hope that in two weeks’ time (or a
little more) everything will be quite ready. It is therefore
very important to have all the material available within
a week, including your foreign chronicle. I hope that this
date will not cause you to break off anything, for I suppose
most of it has been done. V. I. is writing to G. V. today,
asking him to hurry up the person who is writing about
the Paris
congress.[3]It is, of course, quite possible to make
references to his article (if you do make any) even before
the article arrives.

Wishesof all the best and of good health.

Yours,Petrov

P.S.I am this very day sending Dietz the manuscript
(by
G. V.).[4]I hope there, too, things will go ahead
decisively. High time!

[1]Hewrites: “I will send it back as soon as I arrive here.”—Lenin

[2]Areference to I. S. Blumenfeld, then anIskracompositor in
Leipzig.

Preparationsfor publishingIskraandZaryaabroad were
assigned to A. N. Potresov, who went abroad for that purpose in
April 1900. With the assistance of German Social-Democrats,
the setting ofIskrawas arranged in German Social-Democratic
printing presses first in Leipzig and then in Munich.Zaryawas
published legally in Stuttgart by Dietz.

Blumenfeldapparently needed the Nusperli passport for
registration in Leipzig.

[3]Thearticle, “The International Socialist Congress in Paris”, by
Kh. G. Rakovsky, was published inIskraNo. 1 in December 1900.

[4]Areference to one of G. V. Plekhanov’s articles which appeared
inZaryaNo. 1 in April 1901.